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The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ
The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ: opened and applied. By Solomon Stoddard Pastor to the church of North-Hampton in New-England. ; [Nine lines from Philippians]The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ: opened and applied. By Solomon Stoddard Pastor to the church of North-Hampton in New-England. ; [Nine lines from Phillipians]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Phillips, 1687
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The Safety of Appearing in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. › Chapter 8
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1. False signs, many times men make rules to ⟨p. 187⟩judg of themselves by, which are fallacious and deceitful, men make a judgment of themselves by a false Standard: they take such to be signs of salvation as may be found in many a man that perishes; either from their own fancy or the apprehensions of some other men, or from mistaking some other pieces of Scripture, men look upon that to be a sign, which does not distinguish an Heir of glory from a child of wrath: it may be of great advantage for Ministers to lay down sometimes probable signs, but men must have a care that they don't draw conclusions from thence: when men try themselves by false signs they take a ready course to deceive themselves: thus men do when they conclude from hence, that they pray constantly in secret, they don't know that they allow themselves in any known sin, they associate with the people of God, they are liberal to the poor, they are accounted of by the godly &c: that they are in a good estate and shall be saved.
1. False signs, many times men make rules to ⟨p. 187⟩judg of themselves by, which are fallacious and deceitful, men make a judgment of themselves by a false Standard: they take such to be signs of salvation as may be found in many a man that perishes; either from their own fancy or the apprehensions of some other men, or from mistaking some other pieces of Scripture, men look upon that to be a sign, which does not di•tinguish an Heir of glory from a child of wrath: it may be of great advantage for Ministers to lay down sometimes probable signs, but men must have a care that they dont draw conclusions from thence: when men try th•mselves by false signs they take a ready course to deceive themselves: thus men do when they conclude from hence, that they pray constantly in secret, they don't know that they allow themselves in any known sin, they associate with the people of God, they are liberal to the poor, they are accounted of by the godly &c: that they are in a good estate and shall be saved.